Researcher of Byzantine Archaeology & History @EIEgr / Messene & Amorium excavation / Medieval Archaeology from Outer Space / PI @ByzLands_BALAA
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Looking forward to reading this!
4 crops, 3 continents, 2 billion lives
Delighted to share that my new book, Peasants: Makers of the Modern World, is out now with @BloomsburyBooks.
Seeking to restore the countryside's rightful place in history, and the political visibility it so desperately demands today.
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Very happy that "A Collective Biography of Southern European Democratization: The Age of Transitions" (OUP, 2026) has been awarded the 2026 Edmund Keeley Book Prize by the Modern Greek Studies Association. Deeply grateful for the recognition!
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Από το σημερινό δελτίο τύπου της Ένωσης Ελλήνων Ερευνητών: η κατάσταση της έρευνας στην Ελλάδα.
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🎧 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out!
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“Living with Byzantium: Heritage of the 'Other'", with Dr Hakan Tarhan
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Links at biaa.ac.uk/podcasts/living-w…
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Turkish subtitles available
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Nolan's Odyssey is trending, so I look to the most remarkable Odyssey connected recent archaeological find: a Roman clay brick found in 2018 at the necropolis of ancient Olympia (Peloponnese) dating around 200 CE, its surface inscribed with the first 13 verses of Odyssey Book 14!
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The text is remarkable as it describes the visit of Odysseus at the pigsty of the the loyal swineherd Eumaius during his return to Ithaca. Maybe it was created for a proud local landowner, appreciating the Homeric description of a rural estate and related it to their own Eumaius
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The clay tablet has been published with great care and detail in: Summa, D., Hallof, K., Kolia, E.-I. and Lang, F. (2022) “Homerverse auf einem Tonziegel aus der Umgebung von Olympia”, Archäologischer Anzeiger, 2, pp. 1–43
publications.dainst.org/jour…
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As England and Norway play in the World Cup quarter final, it’s time to remember when Norwegian radio commentator Bjørge Lillelien delivered one of the most iconic commentaries of all time after Norway beat England 2-1 in a World Cup qualifying match in Oslo back in 1981:
"We have beaten England! Lord Nelson. Lord Beaverbrook. Sir Winston Churchill. Sir Anthony Eden. Clement Attlee. Henry Cooper. Lady Diana. We have beaten all of them!
Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me? Maggie Thatcher...Your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating!"
#ENGNOR
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East of Byzantium invites proposals for Studying East of Byzantium XIII: Centers and Hubs, a 3-part workshop for doctoral students and recent PhDs with Muriel Debié and Nicholas Matheou. Apply by 13 September 2026 at eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming…
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For nearly 2,000 years, Herculaneum carbonized scrolls stayed sealed, too fragile to open without destroying them. Now the first complete scroll (PHerc. 1667) has been virtually unwrapped and read in full, end to end. The first complete digital unrolling.
scrollprize.org/firstscroll
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📌Yunanistan Kültür Bakanı Lina Mendoni, Thessaloniki'de, "Cennet" Hamamı olarak da bilinen Bey Hamamı'nın restorasyon projesinin açılışını gerçekleştirdi. II. Murad tarafından 1444 yılında kurulan hamam, şehrin en eski hamamı ve Yunanistan topraklarındaki en büyük Osmanlı hamamıdır.
📌Η #ΥΠΠΟ Λίνα Μενδώνη εγκαινίασε στη #Θεσσαλονίκη το έργο αποκατάστασης του Μπέη Χαμάμ, γνωστού και ως Λουτρά «Παράδεισος». Ιδρύθηκε το 1444 από τον Μουράτ Β', είναι το παλαιότερο χαμάμ της πόλης & το μεγαλύτερο οθωμανικό λουτρό στον ελλαδικό χώρο.
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🎧 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out!
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"At the Edges of Empire: Landscapes, Power, and the Roman World", with Prof Hugh Elton
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Links at biaa.ac.uk/podcasts/22-at-th…
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We are pleased to invite you to the Seventh International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium that will be held on 10-12 June 2026 at ANAMED, with the theme of “Negotiating Spaces: Borders, Neighbors and Exchanges in Byzantine Anatolia”.
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Στο ένθετο "Ιστορίες" [30.05.2026] @ta_nea ένα άρθρο μου για την ανασκαφή μας στο βυζαντινό Αμόριο, για μια άλλη Άλωση παλιότερη και λιγότερο γνωστή, για τη σύγκρουση Βυζαντίου και Ισλαμικού Χαλιφάτου τον 8ο και 9ο αιώνα, για την ζωή στην Αθήνα του 2026 και την συνύπαρξη.
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Extremely interesting! I didn't know of it. It echoes the taste and ethos of archaeological documentaries of the 1960s and 1970s, like the similar ones shot across the Mediterranean at the same time. Where can we find the entire film?
1960 Cannes Film Festivali’nde gösterilen “Roman Mosaics in Anatolia”, 1800 yıllık mozaik mirasımızı belgeleyen eşsiz bir film. S. Eyüboğlu ve M. Şevket İpşiroğlu imzalı belgesel, mozaik ve geleneksel el sanatları arasındaki bağı da ortaya koyuyor. @birolguven @TCKulturTurizm
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Join us on May 19th for the 4th #Byzantine Workshop: LIVED TERRITORIES, GOVERNED TERRITORIES! Co-organized by @EIEgr , @EFA, and @hisoma_umr . I'll be presenting on Byzantine agrarian territory, landscape archaeology and Jacques Lefort's work
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While much of Europe is turning its back on Donald Trump, Greece is conspicuously doubling down on its relationship with MAGA.
Here’s why 👇
politico.eu/article/greece-u…
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